Beautiful Photographs of Ugly Subjects
Professional photographers have that funny knack for capturing ugly events, outcasts of society, or normally trashy objects and turning them into a beautiful work of art. This has been done over and over again; yet each new photograph of an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico or of riots in the streets catches us off-guard and reminds us of the beauty that can be found in even the worst situations. The following set of photos shows just how brilliantly a stunning photo can turn an ugly thing into a gorgeous moment frozen in time.
20 Amazing Infographics
Gathering information and putting it into a simple graph/chart can be an effective way to get information across to a view. However, most people will overlook the simple chart of information, because of the lack of design. Infographics are a way to translate information in a new, interesting way with the addition of design elements as well as illustrations to make something that stands out. Below are a few different examples of designs to make that make their information stand out from the rest.
25 Effective and Vintage Retro Web Designs
Vintage and retro designs add a sense of nostalgia to your website. Effectively incorporated, a vintage look can create a connection between a visitor’s memories of and longing for “the good old days” and your business. Fortunately, the previous decade’s design and theme palette offers a variety of concepts that can be used in almost all businesses today.
Beautiful typography in book covers
Most designers are taught and/or learn the importance of typography when they first start out, and it is instilled into our brains. Most other non-design people look at a design with all the elements put together noticing the typography last and picking up on the more dominant elements like images. This selection of book covers forces the reader into looking at the type by making it the prominent theme or the only theme to draw their attention. continue…
Amazing Space Manipulations
Creating photo manipulations about space can go in so many different directions, because of all the different elements that are out there, science fiction movies, and the unknown. Here are a few examples of those elements put onto space wallpapers for you to get your creative juices flowing. We are also going to showcase a few tutorials so after you get some inspiration, you can get into making your own space scenes.
An amazing collection of Car Art
With all the little details and reflections that come with rendering cars, composing digital works of automobiles is truly a talent. We are going to take a look at a variety of different styles from photo manipulation to drawings from scratch to more of an animated look.
Your guide to letterpress for web design
You’ve probably seen around on websites, the de-embossed or letterpress effect on headline text, headers, logos and buttons. It is getting to be a popular look and a standard element on 2.0 websites these days.
In this article we are going to look at some traditional uses of letterpress in print design, some examples in web design, as well as how to make a letterpress effect for yourself with some tutorials.
Creative Action Movie styles
Posters are a great way to get the creative juices flowing. Instead of a lot of professional design work where the main object is to show information, posters are created to draw interest for the movie, making for more interesting outcomes. Here are a few different examples in a few different styles. Enjoy!
Retro Video Game Designs
It is amazing to see how much technology has changed form the 1980 until now. Now with CSS sprites, pixelated art and retro 80′s design coming back in style, I thought we would take a look at some retro games from the past. In this article we are going to look at some retro video game from the 80′s and 90′s of some games I played when I was younger.
Be sure to comment on some retro games you used to/still play.
Inspirational Black and White logo designs
1. The importance of the sketch
Any professional logo designer starts their work firstly by interviewing the client(s) and secondly by searching the Internet for similar works as their project. After completing the ladder they will continue with the most important step, namely: sketching. Most of the amateurs skip this step leading to a grave error. Sketching supposes that the creator takes a pencil and draws on paper lots of possibilities ignoring totally the PC for now. To draw only in pencil is very important. Colors shouldn’t be utilized; the concept is the only thing that matters in this step. Conceptualization on a computer with the help of appropriate software is the next step and only after that we can handle the potential colors of it. In this manner of thinking a black and white logo should be an incomplete work but do not worry, it isn’t true!
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